Geranium.| ‘ GERANIACEAE. 55 
gene obovate, serrate in the upper half; cymes many 
flow a . . G&G. multifiorum. 
va t the e base; cymes few-flowered 5. G. ovatifolium. 
Stem o me mae oainhe roo 3. G. humile 
G 
G 
giodeior re, subirregular; styles ak beyond the adnate ‘peaked 
por : - arboreum, 
Leaves coven lobed; an "herb j , : ‘ 7. G. Carolinianum. 
1. G cuneatum, Hook. Ic. Pl. tab. 198. — An erect undershrub, 
about 2 ft. high, the numerous slender and reddish. pear rather 
distantly foliose and covered below with the permanent s stipules, which 
are subulate from a broad clasping base, 1!/2—2“ long. Leaves alternate, 
thin chartaceous, green on both sides, pubescent when young, cuneate 
or cuneate-obovate, 1—1'/2’ X< 1/2—%/4', on petioles of 1/2‘, 5—7-, rarely 
3-toothed at the truncate or slightly rounded apex, otherwise entire, the 
5 or 7 nerves LS aes underneath, uncer near the end (except 
1”. Pedicels 6—9”, pubescent. Sepals 3”, ovate-lanceolate, mucronate, 
Aerator Petals 5M, obovate, entire, white, with greenish veins. Glands 
pubes Stamens free to the base and equal, as long as the sepals, 
the laments dilated below, pubescent. Carpels and their backs canescent, 
the lat —7, their free stigmatiferous ends 1—1' /: long and revolute. 
Seeds atiad ‘Hnataly reticulate. — Var. a, Menziesii, Gray, Bot. U. S. 
FE. E. p. 812, pl. 29, B. 
Hawaii! on Huwalalai and the Central Plateau. 
8 var. — Leaves silvery-canescent below or on sige faces. — Var. 8, 
hypoleucum, and x, hololeueum, Gray, 1. ¢. and pl. 2 
Kilauea upward, and Mauna Kea. 
. pauciflorum. — Branches thick and stiff. Leaves coriaceous, 
ica avai ene < 6—8", with -— teeth, canescent on both 
faces. Cymes few-(3—9-)flowered, not projecting. 
Mauna Kea, at an elevation of 11 000 ft., where it grows with Argyroziphium. Gray, 
LG.sph. pa C. 
stipulaceous below the leaves. Leaves narrow cuneate, 10—2 4—5", 
on petioles of 3—6", thick coriaceous, silvery-tomentose on both faces 
with appressed silky aces sharply 3-, rarely 5-toothed at the narrow 
pages apex, the 3—5 nerves sunk, pears perceptible, and simple. 
s 7—12-flowered, scarcely meee pares the leaves, often shorter, 
white-siley throughout. Pedicels 2. Sepals 4 , lanceolate, not mucronate, 
silky. Petals 7—8", obovate, et with gresuich veins. wads 
beaks 6“, silvery, the discreet stigmatic branches 2". — G. cuneatum, var. 
